{"id":360306,"date":"2026-09-30T00:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360306\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:56:22","slug":"news-12-long-island-252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360306\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jesus Acosta pleaded not guilty Tuesday in connection with a  <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/man-dead-after-being-shot-in-chest-during-gunpoint-robbery-inside-bronx-deli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadly shooting of a customer<\/a> in the Bronx that sparked a dayslong manhunt across New York City in August.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 31-year-old appeared in Bronx Criminal Court, where he appeared shaky at times and was seen repeatedly shaking his head as prosecutors laid out the case against him.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Acosta is charged with murder in connection with the deadly shooting and robbery at 149 Grill &amp; Deli in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say Acosta opened fire inside the bodega, killing a 33-year-old employee. He is accused of taking money from the cash register and property from the victim before leaving the store.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Acosta is also accused in a separate deadly shooting at a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/man-killed-another-wounded-in-shooting-inside-brownsville-restaurant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn restaurant<\/a> days earlier. <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/brooklyn-community-mourns-hearing-news-of-second-fatal-shooting-with-same-gunman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One man was killed<\/a> and another was wounded in that shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The two shootings sparked a dayslong search for Acosta across the city.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/man-arrested-in-2-nyc-homicides-after-weeklong-manhunt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ultimately found Acosta<\/a> in a Bronx park after receiving an anonymous tip. Authorities say he had a loaded gun when he was taken into custody, and prosecutors say the firearm is connected to both shootings.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Acosta was remanded and remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He is due in federal court on Oct. 8 and is scheduled to return to court in both the Bronx and Brooklyn in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesus Acosta pleaded not guilty Tuesday in connection with a deadly shooting of a customer in the Bronx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-360306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}